Forbess Web Expansion Comes With Some Growing Pains

Forbes.com has expanded rapidly over the last two years, building up a network of 900 freelance contributors (some paid, some not) and increasing its story count by roughly 45%. That growth has come with some measurable benefits -- visitors have doubled over the past year to 31 million, as an example -- as well as some pain.

These days, most of the content on Forbes.com is self-published, Lewis D'Vorkin, chief product officer of Forbes, told me in an interview Thursday afternoon. Authors, whether on staff or freelance, write their own headlines, upload their own multimedia, format their own articles in WordPress and press the publish button themselves. Unlike the printed product, no one e… Continue reading...

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